Re: On Edit GNU Emacs 22.2.1 Eats My Blank Characters At The End Of Line

From:

David Kastrup

Subject:

Re: On Edit GNU Emacs 22.2.1 Eats My Blank Characters At The End Of Lines

Date:

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:21:35 +0200

User-agent:

Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

ChristopherL <address@hidden> writes:
> Hello,
>
> When I overwrite a character in a file containing blank characters
> at the end my lines, Emacs takes them away on save! What can I do to
> prevent the loss of the blank characters?
Disable whatever stuff you put into your .emacs file in order to get
this behavior.
It is a good rule never to put anything into .emacs that you have not
understood, regardless what figure of authority suggested that it would
be a good idea to have.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum